Learning, Retention and Recovery of Meaningful Material-a Study of Clustering in Free Recall Based on Synonyms

摘要

Two 40 word lists were constructed, so that one was composed of 8 groups of 5 synonyms each and the other, a control list, was composed of unrelated words. Randomized orders were prepared for each list. Six groups of subjects were used;one heard a single presentation of the synonym list, one two presentations in different orders of this list, and the third two presentations in the ease order of this list. Control groups heard the control group in corresponding ways. There was an immediate retention toot for all groups and a delayed retention teat after two weeks.